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Victorian love stories : an Oxford anthology

Title
Victorian love stories : an Oxford anthology / edited by Kate Flint.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Flint, Kate.
Description
xiv, 501 pages; 20 cm.
Summary
Love stories from Victorian times. They range from Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose, on the pitfalls of perfect love, to Thomas Hardy's The Son's Veto, on a widow's attempt to find love again.
Series Statement
Oxford paperbacks
Uniform Title
Oxford paperbacks.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Romance fiction, English
  • English fiction > 19th century
  • English fiction
  • Romance fiction, English
  • Liebesgeschichte
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Romans.
Note
  • "First published by Oxford University Press, 1996"--Title page verso
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The authoress / Grace Aguilar -- Right at last / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Frank's sealed letter / William Morris -- Malachi's cove / Anthony Trollope -- A day of days / Henry James -- The captain's last love / Wilkie Collins -- Margaret / Chrisitiana Fraser-Tytler -- Hero / Christina Rossetti -- Her last appearance / Mary Braddon -- The story of Salome / Amelia B. Edwards -- The son's veto / Thomas Hardy -- The end of her journey / Lucy Clifford -- An elixir of love / W.S. Gilbert -- In a far-off world / Olive Schreiner -- A little grey glove / George Egerton -- A conflict of egoisms / Hubert Crackanthorpe -- An ugly little woman / Nora Vynne -- Our neighbour, Mr. Gibson / Florence Henniker -- Flower o' the quince / Henry Harland -- The pleasure-pilgrim / Ellen D'Arcy -- At the gates of paradise / Laurence Alma-Tadema -- The statute of limitations / Ernest Dowson -- The story of the herons / Laurence Housman -- The shrinking shoe / Walter Besant -- An idyll of an omnibus / Mary Angela Dickens -- Bob Harris's deputy / A. St. John Adcock -- An old wife's tale / Ellen T. Fowler -- De amicitia / Somerset Maugham -- Some ways of love / Charlotte Mew -- Georgie Porgie / Rudyard Kipling -- Uma Himāvutee / Flora Annie Steel -- The nightingale and the rose / Oscar Wilde.
ISBN
  • 0192880403
  • 9780192880406
LCCN
97006875
OCLC
  • ocm36458137
  • 36458137
  • SCSB-14659617
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library